Month: October 2006
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Three tortoises
Three tortoises, Mick, Alan and Les, decide to go on a picnic. So Mick packs the picnic basket with beer and sandwiches. The trouble is the picnic site is ten miles away so it takes them ten days to get there.When they get there Mick unpacks the food and beer. “OK Les, give me the…
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The Street Where You Live
The book, “The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul,” a listing of Saint Paul, Minnesota street names and the history behind them by Donald L. Empson is being reissued and updated with names of parks and other things. In the Pioneer Press today they profiled the street where…
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Reflection
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn to laugh at himself.Charles Schultz
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Technology
Three men, a German, a Japanese and a hillbilly were sitting naked in a sauna. Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The German pressed his forearm and the beeping stopped. The others looked at him questioningly.“That was my pager,” he said, “I have a micro chip under the skin of my arm.”A few minutes later…
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The Texas Duck Hunt
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence.As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.The litigator responded, “I shot…
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Cycles
The world is a wheel always turning. Those who are high go down low, and those who’ve been low go up higher.Anzia Yezierska